Topic of the Month October 2017

mHealth: The disease management of tomorrow

Life is becoming more and more digital, and the smartphone has become our daily companion. This trend is also reflected in the health care system. The term mHealth includes not only portable heart rate monitors, but also smartphone apps that are declared as medical devices. Chronically ill patients are a popular and constantly growing target group for the mobile health market. How can patients and doctors benefit from such health treatments? What risks do they entail? We will get to the bottom of these and other questions in our Topic of the Month.

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jumpBALL – thrombosis prophylaxis easy as child's play

Improving people's health with wearable technologies – that's the goal of mHealth. We are visiting the University of Kaiserslautern and the wearHEALTH workgroup, which develops these types of mobile health services with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Here, we get to try the game jumpBALL that has been developed by wearHEALTH to support thrombosis prophylaxis.